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>> an old-timer counts his losses. >> lost my brother, sister, my brother, my mother. pretty much my whole familys passed away since ive been in here. >> me being homosexual, im like an out cast, im like scum of the earth here. >> and a younger inmate looks forward to hitting the streets. >> im going to thank god its over. there are more than 102,000 men and women doing time in the florida state prison system. of the 56 state prisons for men, one is considered the end of the line, the place ma...

>> make sure youve got everything out of your pockets. >> weve got 47 going out on chains and they have all got to be bagged and ready to go by 9:30. so usually the chain warnings are rush, rush. >> every day a number of brushy mountain inmates are transported either to court or to other state prisons. correctional officers call this transportation process going out on chains. >> what we do is we call the blocks one at a time, bring them in. they bring all their property and then we pack all the...

>> make sure youve got everything out of your pockets. >> weve got 47 going out on chains and they have all got to be bagged and ready to go by 9:30. so usually the chain warnings are rush, rush. >> every day a number of brushy mountain inmates are transported either to court or to other state prisons. correctional officers call this transportation process going out on chains. >> what we do is we call the blocks one at a time, bring them in. they bring all their property and then we pack all the...

You dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmate in the cell with me. i mean were not -- were not outside the cell all day. were inside that cell all day. >> yeah, but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> the committee is baffled, not only by hamiltons stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. >> you have been taking a cellie up until the time you got here. once you got her...

After 15 hours in l.a. countys inmate reception center, these prisoners are sent to mens central jail. built in 1963, this maximum security facility can house up to 7,500 inmates. larger than most state prisons, the 900,000-square-foot facility is the first stop for 90% of the inmates. >> what youve got here is an entire population of the downtrodden. youve got the losers in society, youve got gang members. >> here we have everything from duis that are in here for a day or two to 187s, mexican m...

Safety. im not against privatizing some entities within government, but you cant privatize public safety. this piece of legislation, if passed and becomes law, would privatize 27 state prisons in 18 counties. it would put 4,000 correctional officers and their families at risk of not having a job by the end of this year. florida has an unemployment rate of up to 10%. we should be encouraging people to create jobs. we should not be putting people out of work just to allow two major companies to pr...

>> i havent actually went out gang-banging, shooting at people just because theyre from across town and all that. i havent done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones im going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> duker on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the f...

Gang-banging, shooting at people just because theyre from across town and all that. i havent done that in years. but i still hang with my homeboys. and if something happened to one of my close, close ones, im going to have to help retaliate. you know what i mean? >> duker loke, on the other hand, was still caught up in the game. he was still infatuated with this romantic notion of being a gangster. >> what do you want for your future? >> money, power, respect. top of the food chain. >> everybody...

You dont have to marry him. >> yeah, i mean, it seem that way. youre placing this inmate in the cell with me. i mean were not -- were not outside the cell all day. were inside that cell all day. >> yeah, but that should have been a consideration before you went to prison. >> the committee is baffled, not only by hamiltons stubbornness but by its sudden appearance after nine years behind bars at other state prisons. >> you have been taking a cellie up until the time you got here. once you got her...

Clearly that has gotten under the skin of the judge. the judge had the option to give him probation, to give him less than four years. that was an option this judge clearly did not want to take. >> savannah, what does this mean practically speaking in terms of the amount of time dr. murray will spend in california prison? >> thats a real question. as the judge said, because of the california prison overcrowding, state prisons are under supreme court mandate to reduce number of prisoners in their...